Attack of the Cheese Grater!

11th February 2010, at approximately 6:30pm

After coming home from a long day, Brett started on his mountain of homework and I started on dinner...a lovely Shepherd's Pie. All was going well and I was in the last stages of the cooking. I just needed to put grated cheese on top and bake it in the oven for a few minutes to melt the cheese and make it nice and warm.

I successfully started to grate the cheese and was almost done when SLIP goes my thumb right into the grater! I made an exclamation of "AH!" and Brett came to the rescue, he sent me to the bathroom to run it under water. There wasn't much pain but quite a bit of blood. Everything was going to be ok!

Luckily Kathy had sent us a little first aid kit and so we had band-aids on hand. Brett went to grab them and as he did I started to get faint...he came back to find me on the floor. I hadn't passed out, but the shock had its effects!

We put the band-aid on and Brett finished the last 2 steps of dinner whilst I sat down. Since it has been fine, just a little difficult to do things like fold laundry and write, and shower and so forth haha.

I took the band-aid off this morning and the above picture is what I found! Gross huh? It is starting to fill in a bit, but it still bleeds every now and then and hurts to bend! Maybe I will get a cool scar out of it though!!